Subject: Insults (Page 27)

Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Communication Conversation Insults Speech

Say what you will, when Dan Quayle was in the National Guard, not one Viet Cong got past Muncie, Indiana.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host
Insults

In defeat he was unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

(1872 – 1953) British translator, arts patron & civil servant
Insults

He has so many fish hooks in his nose, he looks like a piece of bait.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster
Appearance Insults

Virginia Woolf’s writing is no more than glamorous knitting; I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet
Insults Reading/Writing

He's as big as a gorilla and as strong as a gorilla; if he was as smart as a gorilla he'd be fine.

college football coach
Animals Appearance Body Insults Intelligence

When I can’t sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Books Insults Reading/Writing Situations

He has a bungalow mind.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Insults

I’ve just learned about his illness; let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist
Health Insults

Try interviewing her sometime… it's like talking to a window.

(1948 – ) American television journalist & sportscaster
Insults

Judge Judy went to the hospital because she was having intestinal troubles; turns out, she hates her own guts.

(1956 – ) American comedian
Insults

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Insults

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

(1931 – ) American-born, British screenwriter, novelist & journalist
Insults Sex

Her body has gone to her head.

(1907 – 1990) American actress
Appearance Body Insults

I once described him [Arnold Schwarzenegger] as looking like a condom full of walnuts.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
Appearance Insults

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth – or anywhere else.

(1902 – 1986) English-American actress
Appearance Insults

A huge pendulum attached to a small clock

(1855 – 1942) Russian critic & lecturer
Insults

If he’d been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist
Entertainment Insults Music

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

(1909 – 1998) U.S. senator (Arizona)
Communication Insults Speech